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Nov 23

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Death of Saraswati- a time frame

1. 4700 BP - Kalibangan earthquake. This led to creation & activation of Yamuna tear faults in the Siwalik hills.

2. 3700 BP- Yamuna moves eastward towards Ganga, abandoning Saraswati that loses >50% of its water volume

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3. 4200 BP- Second earthquake in Dholavira, which led to the next episode of tectonic shifts and creation of new faults lines.

4. By 2600 BP Satlej turns westward, abandons Saraswati, and joins Sindhu (Indus). Now Saraswati loses almost its entire volume of the glacier waters.

5. Between 2600-2500 BP, from being a perennial ice-fed river, Saraswati now becomes a weak rain-fed stream. Unfortunately, owing to the monotonic weakening of Monsoons in the Siwalik areas that had set in long back, the rain-fed stream could not retain the previous heavy flow.

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Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা)

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Nov 21

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Tripurantaka Shiva, where Bhagwan Shiva destroyed Tripuri, three revolving aerial cities that belonged to the three Asura brothers, Taarakaaksha, Kamalaaksha, and Vidyunmaali, using a single arrow.

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Interestingly, the bow and arrow and the chariot that Shiva created to end Tripuri was made using various gods & goddesses. As the three cities converged momentarily (a rare event), Shiva mounted on his chariot & using the bow & arrow hit the 3 cities with a single arrow.

The Tripurantaka chariot & the bow and arrow were made of various divinities:

Chariot: Prithvi
Charioteer: Brahma
Chariot Wheels: Surya and Chandra
Bow: Meru Parvat
Bow String: Naga Vasuki
Arrow: Vishnu

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Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা)

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Oct 31

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An ancient Vetala deity worshipped in Goa at the village of Loliem. Vetala are a type of mystical ghostly species of beings.

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A famous example of them occurs in the book Kathasaritsagara, in which a king tries to capture a Vetala, but each time the Vetala tells him a story with a riddle at the end. This occurs 25 times, and those 25 stories are the basis of much of the world's folklore.

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Kathasaritsagara is originally based on a lost epic called Brihatkatha. Brihatkatha was written in the Paishachi langauge (language of ghosts) which is no longer known on Earth, but is believed to have been known by some people in the Dvapara yuga.

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Oct 30

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The 11th century Surya temple of Jhalrapatan (Rajasthan) is an exquisitely carved temple following the ratha style. It has a beautifully carved tall shikhara with many small miniature shikharas (bhumija style) that adorns the sanctum top.
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The original roof shikaras of the mandapas are missing, & replaced with 18th century chattris & a dome, which unfortunately, are a mismatch with the original 10th century architecture of the temple. The temple has a mukha mandapa, mandapa, antarala, & a garbhagriha.

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As per local beliefs, until the middle of the 19th century the sanctum held a gold statue of the Surya/ Sun god, which was carried off by plunderers during the 1857 Mutiny.
Presently the sanctum holds the murti of a four-armed Padmanabha placed inside in the 19th century.

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Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা)

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Oct 9

Today is Kojagori Lakshmi puja; an auspicious day when the Noakhali rio!s were started as pre-planned, in pre-partition Bengal (10th October 1946).
The horrific rio!s were a continuing part of the Direct Action Day rio!s in Calcutta, & continued unabated for many weeks.

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It was a series of organized mass&cres, r@pes, abduc!ions & forced c@nversions of H!ndus to Izlam; & looting & arson of H!ndu properties perpetrated by the Muzlim community (instigated by the Mus!im League) in the districts of Noakhali in Bangladesh (October–November 1946).

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It affected areas under the Ramganj, Begumganj, Raipur, Lakshmipur, Chhagalnaiya & Sandwip police stations in Noakhali district, & the areas under the Hajiganj, Faridganj, Chandpur, Laksham & Chauddagram police stations in Tipperah district, spread across 200 square miles.

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Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা)

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Oct 8

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For those claiming that the term Hindu was coined in the British era, here is a piece of news from the ancient world -

The word Hi(n)du is mentioned twice by the Achaemenian emperor Darius (522-486 BCE) in 2 of his inscriptions dated 518 and 515 BCE.
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Images: The word Hinduš is mentioned as one of 24 subject countries of the Achaemenid Empire, illustrated with the drawing of a kneeling subject & a hieroglyphic cartridge reading 𓉔𓈖𓂧𓍯𓇌 (h-n-d-wꜣ-y), on the Egyptian Statue of Darius I, now in the National Museum of Iran.

These two inscriptions prove beyond any doubt that the term Hindu existed in the BCE era, even before Alexander invaded India, and is NOT a British era construct.

Ref: RC Mazumdar Ancient India for the king Darius inscriptions, p. 97.

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